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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kathy say she feels about herself now that she is safe in bed inside the house?
(a) She is grateful for Nadereh's help.
(b) She is deserving of every bad thing that has ever happened.
(c) She is hopeful about her future with Lester.
(d) She is a good person who doesn't deserve these misfortunes.

2. What does Lester decide to do with the Behranis after he sees that Esmail could have escaped through the window?
(a) Lock them in the bedroom.
(b) Send them out of the house.
(c) Lock them in the bathroom.
(d) Tie them up.

3. Why doesn't Behrani call an ambulance when they find Kathy has ingested pills?
(a) He is too shaken to remember how to do it.
(b) He is sure she is not hurt.
(c) He is sure she is dead.
(d) He is afraid the police will bring more trouble.

4. What does Behrani instruct Esmail to do when they go into the boy's room?
(a) Jump on Lester.
(b) Close the blinds.
(c) Run for the door.
(d) Crawl out the window.

5. What does Lester try to convince Kathy to do now that they have held the Behrani family overnight?
(a) Take the money from the county and leave with him.
(b) Demand that the county pay full market value for the house.
(c) Turn herself in to the police.
(d) Kidnap his children and run away with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Behrani most about Lester's behavior as he breaks into their house?

2. What does Lester call the Whore Twenty-Four?

3. What does Kathy worry about as she thinks of her own death?

4. How does Kathy first try to kill herself?

5. Why doesn't Lester move his head as they drive to the county offices so that Behrani can see to drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?

2. Why does Lester feel like a fraud?

3. Nadereh berates Behrani while he repairs her mother's table, but he lets her insults "pass over like training jets with no ammunition." Why doesn't he respond to her tirade, and what does she finally say that causes him to enter the argument?

4. Why does Lester conclude that the Behranis have told him the truth about Kathy's situation?

5. Why is Kathy's judgment so confused as she drives to the house and parks in the driveway?

6. How does Kathy feel as she goes back into the house to wait for Lester?

7. Why does Kathy go sit in the car to wait for Lester to return? Why doesn't she stay inside the house?

8. How do Behrani's feelings change when he finds Kathy in the car in his driveway?

9. Why does Lester decide that the Behranis have harmed Kathy when he returns to the house and looks in through the window?

10. Who does Lester want to call from jail and what does he plan to say?

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